The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-09-21


-Pentwater has Fat mems base ball
club.
The street signs at Hudson are painted
on the street lamps.
Huntington expects 10 be electric light
ed in the near future.
Two fruit evaporators at Tecumseh
are at work, employing from forty TO fifty
hands and turning out from 500 to 600
bushels of apples per day.
Fire caused by thrashing engine on
the farm of Thomas Bownus near Adrian,
lately destroyed three barns and outbuild-
ings. crops, implements, etc. Loss, 5000;
insured.
A piece OF rock was thrown 1000 feet
by blast in shaft No. ., Calumet & Hecla
Mine, and in coming down crashed through
house, landing at the feet of an old lady
who sat knitting.
Jacob Moore, of Iona, boasts he can
show an apple that is forty years old, and
that the orchard in which it grew has been
entirely obliterated. 1t grew down in Lam
caster County, Pennsylvania, and was
probably one of those knarly little things
that are harder than Pharaoh's heart and
were often used as bullets by the early set
tiers in times when lead was scarce.
-Adiian's largest and most rapidly
growing industry is the preparation Of
canned fruits and vegetables. In the busy
season three large factories, employing
about 325 hands, place upon the market
100000 cans OF tomatoes, squash, pump
kins, ETC., beginning late in August or early
in September and ending their work about
the time the last of their material is mar
keted.
While blast was being fred at the
South Jackson Mine, near Negaunee, late
ly, some timbers that were supporting the
roof of the mine were loosened, and q
large quantity Of rock and timber fell, in
stantly killing Thomas Sandercock. Four
others heard the cracking of the timbers
and escaped with but slight injuries. Sam
dercock leaves wife and three children in
England.
The investigation Of the case of BERTHE
Olson, the young Norwegian girl who hung
herself at Menominee few days ago, re-
vealed sad and peculiar story. Andrew
Olson, a lumber shower at Menominee,
lost his wife, and as soon as his period of
mourning was concluded he bethought
him Of former sweetheart in Norway, to
whom he wrote, inclosing passage ticket
to America. The letter, however, found
his old flame married to another, and the
ticket was transferred to BERTHE, who came
to marry the donor, although she had never
seen him. On her arrival she said she
must have been fool to leave handsome
lover to come to America for a man like
Andrew, and she refused point blank to
marry him. He did not insist upon it.
But the poor girl lived with him and
brooded on her fate until her mind gave
way, and she ended her existence.
Albert, the 13-year- son of julius
Wells, of Saginaw, procured gun from
his fathers barn, one barrel of which was
loaded. The lad drew out the charge Of
shot and endeavored to explode the pow
der by dropping lighted match into the
muZzle. Two attempts of this kind proved
unsuccessful. A younger brother, who was
playing near by, succeeded in accomplish
ing the desired effect by holding lighted
match to the tube as the elder applied his
mouth to the muzzle of the barrel, and the
contents were discharged into his mouth,
terribly lacerating it and knocking out sew
eral teeth. There were but o few grains of
shot In the charge, all Of which, however,
were received by the unfortunate boy.
Physicians were Immediately summoned,
but the nature of the wounds were such
that they were unable to render any great
assistance. Everything was done toward
making the sufferer comfortable, and his
condition is reported as being favorable
for recovery. The principal injury is I'M
derneath and at the roots of the tongue.
1t was fortunate the shot had been with
drawn from the barrel, as otherwise the lad
Wouit nave Dcch uuuouDttoiy
There was a sudden and unexpected
termination 10 lesson that was being adj
ministered to dog in Muskegon of late.
In the household of Mr.. j. X. Deming
there is, or rather there was, a dog which
was the pet of the family. In the course
of its training it was thought best that it
should have considerable training in the
way Of nerve and pluck-at least that is
what the 16-year-old boy in the Deming
family thought. On the evening in ques-
ton Miss Deming held the cute little canine
in her lap, while Der brother executed va
rious war-like maneuvers round about the
dog. 1t was finally thought it would be a
good test of the pluck of the coming bur-
glar annihilator to snap a cap at it on
shotgun. The gun was procured and a
cap placed in position; the young lady
held the intrepid doggy in her hands while
it looked straight into the muzzle of the
gun without winking. The boy pointed
the gun square at the head of the little
pet, just above his sisters lap, when snap
went the cap and bang went the gun, blow